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Unleash your artistic side and master the art of drawing with a wide range of classes available in NYC. Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, these courses offer expert instruction, helping you tap into your creativity and create stunning visual masterpieces.

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Learn to Draw Realistically: Portrait (Gr 6-12) Online

One River School

Students will learn the foundations of drawing and become familiar with the graphite medium. Students will learn how to render the human eye, nose, and mouth naturalistically.  What you need for camp:  Pencils eraser drawing paper.

(13) All levels 11 - 17 years old
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Summer Camp: Film Noir Painting & Drawing (6th-12th)

One River School

Venetian blinds, high contrast, and romance characterize the melodramatic genre of film noir. This class centers on this movement in Hollywood that dominated cinema in the 1940s. Choosing a still image from a film noir, students will create representational paintings and drawings packed with drama and suspense.

(13) All levels 11 - 17 years old
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Learn to Draw Realistically: Nature (Gr 6-12) - Online

One River School

Learn to Draw Realistically:  Nature & Landscapes (Grades 6-12) - Online Camp Explore composition, perspective, texture, and more in this comprehensive drawing camp. Students will use the natural world and its surrounding landscapes as the main subject matter to create their drawings.  What you need for camp:  Pencils eraser drawing paper.

(13) All levels 11 - 17 years old
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Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak

The Jewish Museum @ Virtual Learning

Teachers, librarians, and school staff are invited to explore the work of renowned children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, subject of the 2005 Jewish Museum exhibition, Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak.  Arthur Yorinks, award-winning author and director, will speak about his collaborations with Sendak, including most recently, Presto and Zesto in Limboland, published after Sendak’s death, and will discuss how Sendak...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Adult Art Shuffle: Beginner

One River School @ 319 Franklin Turnpike , Allendale, NJ

Adult Art Shuffle: Beginner is designed for pure beginners, seeking thoughtful introductory experiences across projects that shuffle across drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Classes are project-based with a fun and engaging curriculum that allows students to learn essential skills across art making through teacher led demonstrations, material explorations and hands-on assistance.  *Experienced students seeking a personalized...

(13) Beginner 18 and older
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$255

4 sessions

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Workshop 3 | CREATIVE PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES for Fashion

Fashion Drawing Session

Some of the most stunning illustrations that grace the pages of today’s fashion magazines are created by artists who digitally manipulate their images using Photoshop - but make it look as if it was done by hand.

All levels 18 and older
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After Work Unwind

Marigold Studio

Come unwind in the studio with us! These fun, judgement-free sessions are the ideal place to experiment with a new artistic process and let go of the day’s stress. Enjoy time for yourself to relax and create something unexpected, in a playful and social environment. Each week, we’ll introduce a new process to explore, but of course, you’re always welcome to use whichever media or process intrigues you the most. Media available to you includes:...

All levels 18 and older
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Adult Personalized Art Program

One River School

Our personalized studio art program allows students to work in a small group setting exploring the medium and subject matter of their choice – from drawing and painting to collage and sculpture. Our instructors are professional artists who inspire students through their own art practice and vast teaching experience.

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Intro to Drawing, Painting & Sculpture for Adults

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo

Explore how to express what you see or imagine into two and three dimensional artworks in this fun introductory class. Learn how to build a composition, convey dimensionality, spatiality, perspective and all about color relationships, using various media including pencils, charcoal, acrylic, and watercolor. The first two sessions are dedicated for drawing and painting from observation, and will include tasks for the development of imagination and...

(181) Beginner 18 and older
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Tomboy BKLYN Mag Fashion Drwg Session+Portfolio Review

Fashion Drawing Session

Draw outfits inspired by Brooklyn and/or stop by for the portfolio review (optional) by the editors who are looking for contributors to future issues of Tomboy BKLYN. A special Fashion Drawing Session styled by the founders and editors, Ashta Hunter and Elizabeth Benzing, of Tomboy BKLYN - a curated lifestyle brand with a more inclusive take on unisex style, mixing casual street fashion with high-end and menswear designer clothing. This is going...

All levels 18 and older
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Draw With Fashion Designer & Illustrator Renaldo

Fashion Drawing Session

The workshop aims to expand creative boundaries and give artists insight into the world of professional illustration. Please bring the materials and mediums you are most comfortable using, plus… 9x12 or 11x14 Marker Pad 9x12 or 11x14 Tracing Paper Various pencils, pens, and markers

All levels 18 and older
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Virtual Live Portrait Drawing

Newark Museum @ Virtual Learning

Hone your skills and work towards drawing realistic portraits in this live-modeled session. Gather your materials and join us on Zoom for this 90-minute session with model. Draw, paint, or even sculpt this live model, who will offer a variety of angles and options that are sure to keep you inspired. Please note that this is an opportunity to create a portrait from a live model, not a facilitated class. Although no instruction will be given to participants,...

All levels 18 and older
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Teens: Intro to Portrait Drawing & Painting

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo

Learn how to draw & paint portraits of your favorite people in your life! Use drawing, painting plus mixed media to create likenesses of family, friends or pets or even your favorite celebrities! Work from personal subject matter- your own photos or Selfies & create your very own self portrait! Create finished pieces perfect to give as gifts while you learn this fun and useful skill.  This is a fun and creative...

(181) Beginner 10 - 17 years old
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Landscape

Ashcan Digital Academy

The Landscape course introduces students to techniques for painting natural and man-made landscapes in Photoshop. This course heavily emphasizes perspective techniques, starting from a one-point perspective and building up to five-point perspective. Subjects include: Perspective Camera Angle Composition Light Study Color Scheme In this course, students will apply traditional painting concepts and techniques to a digital format. The class...

(1) All levels 13 and older
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Live Drawing

FIELD COLONY @ Virtual Classroom

Figure drawing involves simple materials - pencil / charcoal - as means of discovery. Ideas evolve through the process of the “drawn” language with specific exercises that focus on visual analysis and the skills needed for expressive form such as line, tone, mass and illusionistic space to capture the features of the nude model. Rarely do you get to see other artist’s work in process. The group environment allows you to see how others experiment...

(43) All levels 18 and older
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Large Format Workshop: Painting

New York School of the Arts @ 315 E 62nd St, New York, NY

This three-day workshop, led by Maurizio Pellegrin, is structured to accomplish several compositions or works in a large format. The participants will paint and/or draw on huge paper surfaces with any desired paint and technique.  Participants will need to bring:  (1) colorants (wet or dry) including; paints, inks, charcoal or pencil,  (2) large format brushes and,  (3) whatever other materials the participant is currently...

(76) All levels 18 and older
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$400

3 sessions

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Sketching & Planning Projects of Oil Painting

92nd Street Y

For these online Zoom courses, we will consider the home studio as a place to sketch and plan paintings to be executed later in the painting studio. Many of the sketches you create will be just that—sketches. Not every sketch is worthy of becoming a painting. But, the process of sketching will make you more adept at drawing, composition, value and evaluating the aspects for making a strong, successful painting. Class will begin at 10:00 am with...

(1070) All levels 18 and older
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Z-Brush

Ashcan Digital Academy @ 45 East 34th St, New York, NY

In this course, students learn the basic functions of ZBrush Core and 3D modeling. Classes focus on sculpting from simplified forms to create polished 3D models while learning several tools from Z-brush Core’s interface. All techniques learned throughout the course will be applied in a final project: modeling a creature or character. Subjects include: Learning the Interface Simple Dynamesh Sculpting Simple Dynamesh Sculpting II Sculpting...

(1) Intermediate 13 and older
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$800

8 sessions

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Painting Fall's Bounty: Drawing and Watercolor

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Join this class to explore drawing and watercolor techniques, composition, color, and value. Emphasis will be on seeing and translating your own artistic vision, with individual instruction and critiques. This is an indoor class with the option to paint out in the garden.  Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already have watercolor supplies, please bring them. This is a suggested list: HB or 2H pencil Plastic...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Adult Painting and Drawing

ArtClassBklyn.com @ 98 Sterling St, Brooklyn, NY

2-hour sessions sometimes working from life and  photos weekday evenings. There you will be working in many drawing and  painting mediums, emphasising: weight, contour, gesture and perspective in color and Black and white. Learn about color and form creation, and express yourself to take your imagination to the next level.  Remember to Bring a painting smock and painting clothes, and we provide - bare minimum, a pad, pencils, sharpeners...

(14) All levels 18 and older
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$37.50
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